Shloka 181
Adhyaya 8 — Harishchandra’s Trial: Truth, the Sale of Family, and Bondage to a Chandala
राजपत्नीउवाच हा वत्स ! कस्य पापस्य अपध्यानादिदं महत् ।
दुःखमापतितं घोरं यस्यान्तो नोपलभ्यते ॥
rājapatny uvāca: hā vatsa! kasya pāpasya apadhyānād idaṃ mahat | duḥkham āpatitaṃ ghoraṃ yasyānto nopalabhyate ||
王后说道：“哀哉，我的孩子！因追思何等罪业，竟使这巨大而可怖的悲苦降临于我等——其终竟不可得见？”
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FAQs
The queen interprets calamity through karmic causality: suffering prompts self-examination and moral accounting, a common Purāṇic impulse toward ethical introspection.
Didactic narrative (ākhyāna) emphasizing karma-dharma reasoning within a royal exemplar story.
‘Apadhyāna’ suggests the mind’s fixation: brooding itself becomes a binding force. The ‘endless sorrow’ image points to saṃsāra’s seeming interminability until insight breaks the cycle.